Traveling back home to visit family in Baltimore always meant a trip to see my Grandma Mollie.
Stepping into to her home on Appleton Street was liking walking through a time warp.
The place to be in grandma’s house was the kitchen!
Iconic copper molds of every type lined the walls.
I have no memory of them ever being used.
Childhood memories, sights and smells of food cooking, grandma humming while “The Price is Right” flickered on the screen of a small tv with “rabbit ears” topped with tinfoil.
I know I got my love of cooking and recipes from my time with both grandmothers in their kitchens!
I gotta get out, gotta get out, gotta get away… 🎶🎵🎼
So that’s what we did! Our trip to the Great Smokey Mountains National Park in December 2020 was a great opportunity to get out and enjoy nature on a grander scale. (No local state park in Georgia this time!) The mountains were callin (callin my name), them Tennessee mountains.
Neal and I were delighted to walk trails, climb to hidden waterfalls and soak in the sun’s ray all be it in the valley or on mountain top.
I think I'll go for a walk outside now
The summer sun's callin my name
(I hear ya now)
I just can't stay inside all day
I gotta get out get me some of those rays
Everybody's smilin
Sunshine day
Everybody's laughin
Sunshine day
Everybody seems so happy today
It's a sunshine day
Glass vase 5.10 mm (Moment Macro 25mm) 10x flash 1/230 sec f / 1.6 ISO 32Pot scrubber 5.10 mm (Moment Macro 25mm) 10x flash 1/230 sec f / 1.6 ISO 32Cat toy ball 5.10 mm (Moment Macro 25mm) 10x flash 1/230 sec f / 1.6 ISO 32Ginger 5.10 mm (Moment Macro 25mm) 10x flash 1/230 sec f / 1.6 ISO 32Placemat 5.10 mm (Moment Macro 25mm) 10x flash 1/230 sec f / 1.6 ISO 32Garlic 5.10 mm (Moment Macro 25mm) 10x flash 1/230 sec f / 1.6 ISO 32Bread 5.10 mm (Moment Macro 25mm) 10x flash 1/230 sec f / 1.6 ISO 32Steel wool 5.10 mm (Moment Macro 25mm) 10x flash 1/230 sec f / 1.6 ISO 32Napkin 5.10 mm (Moment Macro 25mm) 10x flash 1/230 sec f / 1.6 ISO 32Sponge 5.10 mm (Moment Macro 25mm) 10x flash 1/230 sec f / 1.6 ISO 32Plastic Dish Brush 5.10 mm (Moment Macro 25mm) 10x flash 1/230 sec f / 1.6 ISO 32Steel Straw Cleaner 5.10 mm (Moment Macro 25mm) 10x flash 1/230 sec f / 1.6 ISO 32Copper pot scrubber 5.10 mm (Moment Macro 25mm) 10x flash 1/230 sec f / 1.6 ISO 32
Look around the house, what do you see? What items are so small you almost don’t see them?
Walking through the Atlanta Dairies, a hip urban renewal community just off Memorial Drive in Atlanta, Georgia. I looked up and above our heads was a beautifully retro remnant of this industrial park, a huge crane. Other reminders of an age past were beautifully placed among the new offices and shops.
